IT (1990 MINISERIES): WHO IS TO BLAME?
The Alarmist
The Alarmist
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🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Who’s to blame for IT (1990 miniseries)?
This week, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) revisits the 1990 miniseries classic IT to decide once and for all who’s to blame for the murderous killing spree of young children in Derry, Maine. Is it supernatural? Is it mythological? Is it pathological? Perhaps a combination of all three! Is this what happens when we forget our history? Join Fact Checker Chris Smith and Producer Clayton Early as they get to the bottom of IT. Up on the board: The Adults of Derry, Ignoring Collective Trauma and Clowns: the Original Gaslighters.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Alarmy, check out Alarmist on Patreon for ad-free episodes and bonus content. |
| 0:07.7 | You know, young kids, like, you remember when you're a kid because you collected baseball cards? |
| 0:13.1 | Like, I'm sure there was like a rivalry with some of your friends because they had like a good card. |
| 0:17.3 | And you're like, ooh, I would love to have a good Daryl Strawberry vintage. |
| 0:20.6 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:22.4 | That's the one guy I know. |
| 0:27.1 | Go to patreon.com slash the alarmist and subscribe today. |
| 0:32.5 | I was born with a special gift. |
| 0:35.7 | The ability to mentally transform any situation into the worst-case |
| 0:40.5 | scenario in my own brain. My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing. And that's why I'm uniquely |
| 0:51.8 | qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters and find out who's to blame. |
| 1:01.5 | They say history repeats itself. |
| 1:04.2 | Not on my watch. |
| 1:05.4 | My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith and I am the alarmist. |
| 1:16.5 | Hey, everyone, thanks to tuning into The Alarmist, a comedy podcast where we talk about |
| 1:21.0 | history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame. |
| 1:25.4 | Today we're discussing the 1990 miniseries, It. Here's what you need to know. |
| 1:33.3 | Set in the small town of Derry, Maine. It unfolds across two timelines and follows a group of seven misfit kids, Bill, Beverly, Ben, Richie, Eddie, Mike, and Stan. |
| 1:48.9 | They playfully call themselves the Losers Club. |
| 1:52.8 | As children, they are drawn together by a shared terror, a shapeshifting entity that preys on |
| 1:59.6 | their fears, often taking the form of Pennywise, the dancing clown. |
| 2:04.7 | It kills kids, damn it. |
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